Sandmason Demo

Sandmason is a first person puzzle game developed and published by a studio named GoodVole.

Ever since Valve came out with the Portal series, various other developers have been trying to come up with something better, but that’s a really tall order as you can imagine. Trying to beat or to surpass the likes of Portal os very difficult, but developers do try. Sandmason looks like someone took a stab at the first person genre and did a really great job.

The thing that Sandmason lacks is a proper story mode, but that’s not a problem. Even without a solid story, Sandmason is still pretty interesting and a joy to play. It’s proof that if you make the game sufficiently good enough you don’t actually need all the regular components that would otherwise be required.

The players take on the role of a miner that’s been hired by a big corporation. It’s not clear whether the action happens on Earth or another planet, but that’s less important since it’s all happening underground. What we do know is that it’s happening far into the future.

You have a special tool that can dig and store certain materials, only to use them for building tasks all over again. You can also generate some special force fields, gets jetpacks, and receive various other tools. The overall missions require the player receives usually requires reaching the other end of the level.

Digging is a big part of the game, but there is more than just that. You will also have to figure out how various machines are working, you will have to power up contractions, and you will have to stay alive.

It's not hard to die in this game, even if it's a basically a puzzle game. Various creatures, some moving slime, dangerous materials, and of course the big falls are going to end your journey very soon.

The game has small system requirements and pretty much anyone with a computer will be able to play it. You can easily get the demo and see if you like it.